Programme:

16th October (Thursday), Venue: Scruton Cafe MCC

4.00-4.10 PM Opening Remarks

Zoltán Szalai, Director General, MCC

4.10-4.40 PM Panel on the Debut of the Eric Voegelin Volume

Tilo Schabert, Professor Emeritus at University of Erlangen

András Lánczi, Director of the European Center of Political Philosophy, MCC

4.40-5.10 PM Panel on the Debut of the European Journal of Political Philosophy

András Lánczi, Director of the European Center of Political Philosophy, MCC

William Wood, Chief Editor, European Journal of Political Philosophy

Titus Techera, Managing Editor, European Journal of Political Philosophy

5.10-5.30 PM Questions & Answers Period

5.30-6.00 PM Introduction of The Strauss-Kojeve Conference & The Conferees

András Lánczi, Director of the European Center of Political Philosophy, MCC

William Wood, Chief Editor, European Journal of Political Philosophy

Titus Techera, Managing Editor, European Journal of Political Philosophy

 

17th October (Friday), Venue: MCC Hunyadi Room

 

9.00-9.20 AM Opening Remarks

András Lánczi, Director of the European Center of Political Philosophy, MCC

9.20-10.00 AM           Keynote Speech:

Paul Rahe, Tyranny, from Ancient to Modern

10.00-10.30 AM         Discussion, Paul Rahe with Titus Techera

10.30-11.00 AM         Coffee break

11.00-12.30 AM         First Panel: Strauss & Kojeve on the Universal Homogeneous State

  • Tim Burns: Strauss’ Aim in the Strauss-Kojeve Debate
  • Alberto Ghibellini: The Universal and Homogeneous State in the Strauss-Kojeve Debate
  • Titus Techera: The Political Limit & the Philosophical Alternative to Progress in Strauss’ disagreement with Kojeve

12.30-2.00 PM           Lunch Break

2.00-3.30 PM  Second Panel: French Thought Tocquevillian Visions of Tyranny in The Age of Democracy

  • Paul Rahe: Rousseau's Debt to Montesquieu: On Modern Liberty & Democracy
  • Melvin Schut: Tocqueville on Tyranny
  • Gabor Megadja: Liberal Democracy as a Form of Tyranny

3.30-4.00 PM Coffee break

4.00-5.30 PM  Third Panel: German Thought Technology & state power in relation to tyranny

  • William Wood: Nietzsche on the Unfreedom of the So-Called Free Spirits
  • Alex Priou: The State and the End of the University in Heidegger and Strauss
  • Till Kinzel: Enlightenment as Tyranny at the End of History? Remarks on Heidegger, Gehlen, and Schelsky